An 11-day-old baby has reportedly contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
This was announced by the Directorate of Child Health, Prof Sampson Antwi.
He told Joy News that the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital is recording an upsurge of Covid-19 cases among children.
He said; “In the last 10 days, the facility has recorded 9 child cases.”
“While the youngest among them is an 11-day-old baby, the oldest is 14 years,” he revealed.
According to him, the situation is taking a toll on the facility as management struggles to access space for children diagnosed with Covid-19 and other cases.
“We are having a huge surge in Covid positive cases and the disease initially, children were said to be spared. We had 14 the whole of last year but this year, just the spate of 10-days, we got 9 positive cases,” he indicated.
SOURCE: Gossips24.com
